Wearing protective gear really DOES NOT have that much to do with use of Senior Bats.

Just yesterday witnessed a short stop get his teeth knocked out from a thrown ball hitting 2nd base and ricocheting into his face.

Wearing a $40 face mask is MUCH, MUCH cheaper than having to rushed to the hospital and paying thousands for facial and/or oral surgery. And worse, losing precious time from playing ball.

For me, I have enough medical problems (heart & cancer for example) that can keep me from playing ball. By wearing protection, I am eliminating as many unnecessary hurts and pains as I can so I can spend as much time as possible on the ball field.

After all your ranting and raving you don't know the COR and Compression of the balls used in the past were much higher than the ones used today.

So a maybe a 47-50 COR 525 or higer Compression ball hit off a DeMo Double wall 120 bpf bat of yesteryear would not be very much different from a ball of lower COR and Comp hit off composite bats used today. Maybe that is why there were no Senior bats back then.

Evidently you guys have never heard of warrantied bats being intentionally broken and sent in for replacement a month or two before the warranty expires. People have been doing that for years and the bat prices are approximately the same.

A couple years ago I broke a Miken Red bat about 2.5 weeks after I got it. I had the receipt and Miken replaced it with no problem other than having to pay for shipping the bat to Miken. Yes there is a "No Warranty" written on the bats, but Miken is not "hard and fast" in each case. From my experience I believe they try to be reasonable about what's fair treatment of their customers.

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